Once having loved her so much I have a serious dislike of Streep after she played haggie. This was apparently a major movie scoop for her. She’s dead to me now.
Maggie Thatcher can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher? Your boys took a hell of a beating.
Is everyone listed on that wonderful rant dead now?
The answer is Yes by the way.
The Irish Times has absolutely disgraced itself today.
you surprised that a paper that recruits for the British Army is pro Thatcher?
Bertie Ahearne was on BBC Radio five this morning discussing the 15 year anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. When asked about Thatchers death he said:
“To quote Eamon De Valera, founder of our party, on Churchill - he said he was a great Englishman but not good for Ireland”
This is the type of man who should be running our country!!
Oh wait…
So how has the sad news been received in that far flung hellhole of the Commonwealth that you call home? Any reaction from your own lady British Prime Minister?
Australia’s foreign minister called Thatcher a racist.
Thatcher’s free regulation of markets can be summed up with the following lines:
You’ve got the brawn, I’ve got the brains
Let’s make lots of money
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[SIZE=16px][FONT=Georgia]Australia’s foreign minister Bob Carr[/URL] says [URL=‘http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Margaret%20Thatcher&article=true’]Margaret Thatcher made an “unabashedly racist” comment to him about Asian immigration.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Georgia]Speaking in a television interview, Mr Carr said Mrs Thatcher told him Australia[/URL] could end up like [URL=‘http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_location=Fiji&article=true’]Fiji “where the Indian migrants have taken over”.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Georgia]Mr Carr, whose wife was born in Malaysia, said he respected some aspects of Mrs Thatcher’s political leadership, but there were “100 other things [over which] I would pick arguments with her”.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Georgia]“She warned Australia - talking to me with Helena [his wife] standing not far away - against Asian immigration, saying that if we allowed too much of it we’d see the ’natives’ of the land, the European settlers, overtaken by migrants,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it.[/FONT][/SIZE]
There is a campaign running in the UK to get Ding Dong the Witch is dead to number 1 
And as friend of the forum Barry Glendenning noted, it would be doing a lot better if they just picked a version of the song and stuck with that.
Sign me up
The Judy Garland one is the one to get, they’d be in the top 40 now if they’d all bought the same one.
It takes fuck all to get a song to number one at this time of the year.
Was just going to post this. 
Glenda Jackson is an alright sort. Someone put her on the Xmas party guest list. 
[quote=“Bandage, post: 757451, member: 9”]Glenda Jackson’s speech from earlier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDtClJYJBj8
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Great speech. Hit the nail on the head when she spoke of Thatcherism being all about the legitimisation of callousness.
Good short video from a US perspective here.
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]I watched John Pilger’s 1993 documentary “Return to Year Zero” yesterday and I’ve picked out a few quotes and facts. [/FONT][/SIZE]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PxpXf-6sY
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]No other country had/has a higher proportion of amputees and physicallly disabled people as Cambodia due to all the landmines. [/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]China and Britain trained Cambodian guerrillas in the use of mines and explosives.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]In the documentary, Rae McGrath, director of the Mines Advisory Group, said (at 25:15): “This country, through the SAS, the British taxpayer, trained the KPNLF and the ANS, the two so-called non-communist resistance groups , they were trained in very, very detailed courses, three months of which were dedicated to demolitions, everything that’s required - railways, booby traps, airports, how to blow up airlines. In other words, what this country, through the SAS was training the KPNLF and the ANS in are the very things we revile in the IRA, the very things that we call terrorism when they happen in Oxford Street”[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]“I have seen the course notebooks of some of the trainees, and they were taught about mines.”[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]For two years the British Government denied that they were training Cambodian terrorists. In July 1991 the British government finally admittted they had been secretly training allies of Pol Pot.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]Cambodian Defence Minister Tea Banh said that British forces had been giving [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]direct[/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana] training to the Khmer Rouge.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]In July 1991 a former British intelligence office also told Pilger that that direct training of Khmer Rouge guerrillas had been going on for [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]ten[/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana] years. [/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=13px][FONT=Verdana]In 1993 it was estimated that there were seven million landmines in Cambodia, one for everybody in the country.[/FONT][/SIZE]
Haven’t seen many cartoonists reactions on this thread, please post your favourites. This one by Australian Michael Leunig, one of my favourites. Amazing though that there are literate people here in this far flung hellhole.
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Amazing though that there are literate people here in this far flung hellhole.[/quote]
bunclody or oz ?